Hospice will hold first-ever yard sale

Published: Monday, April 22, 2013 at 04:34 PM.

The Hospice League of Alamance-Caswell hopes you are in the mood for some spring cleaning.

The charity has planned a Hospice Flea Market Yard Sale for May to raise money for the organization’s programs and for you. And you’ll have a cleaner house, to boot.

The sale is planned for Saturday, May 18 in the parking lot of the Hospice Flea Market store at 1003 W. Main St. in Haw River (it’s in the former Winn-Dixie location where North Church Street enters Haw River).

Here’s the idea: You pay a fee to rent a booth ($20 for Hospice League members, staff and volunteers and $30 for others), you provide tables, chairs and your merchandise (already priced), you keep all the proceeds, at the end of the sale you can box up your remaining items and a Hospice truck will circle the lot for you to donate for a tax write-off. Hospice will provide all the publicity for the sale, the group just asks that you clean up your space when you are done.

Hospice League Director Faye Boswell says she came up with the idea after hearing people tell her they wanted to have a yard sale, but didn’t have the space or a good location and didn’t have enough stuff to have one on their own.

“And when it was over they surely didn’t want to look at that stuff anymore when it’s done,” she said.

The sale will open at 9 a.m. Though the League wants participants to sign up early, the spaces will be divided up on a first-come, first-served basis that morning and will start closest to the store.

The Hospice League of Alamance-Caswell hopes you are in the mood for some spring cleaning.

The charity has planned a Hospice Flea Market Yard Sale for May to raise money for the organization’s programs and for you. And you’ll have a cleaner house, to boot.

The sale is planned for Saturday, May 18 in the parking lot of the Hospice Flea Market store at 1003 W. Main St. in Haw River (it’s in the former Winn-Dixie location where North Church Street enters Haw River).

Here’s the idea: You pay a fee to rent a booth ($20 for Hospice League members, staff and volunteers and $30 for others), you provide tables, chairs and your merchandise (already priced), you keep all the proceeds, at the end of the sale you can box up your remaining items and a Hospice truck will circle the lot for you to donate for a tax write-off. Hospice will provide all the publicity for the sale, the group just asks that you clean up your space when you are done.

Hospice League Director Faye Boswell says she came up with the idea after hearing people tell her they wanted to have a yard sale, but didn’t have the space or a good location and didn’t have enough stuff to have one on their own.

“And when it was over they surely didn’t want to look at that stuff anymore when it’s done,” she said.

The sale will open at 9 a.m. Though the League wants participants to sign up early, the spaces will be divided up on a first-come, first-served basis that morning and will start closest to the store.